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  • Do you think you are a sh*t hot SQL Server Contractor

    Then contact me we need your services for project. Use the contact form on this blog or contact me through linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2895653
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Feb 8 2013
  • Want a new job - make sure you are on Linkedin

    When you go shopping for a new gadget do you just go to your nearest electronics store (currys, best buy, etc) and read the marketing ticket next to the product? No you probably dont. You more than likely ask your friends if theyve got one and what they think. Or you go and look for reviews that compare the different options. The same applies ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Mon, Jan 14 2013
  • It all started with some lego, some beer and a water slide

    When I started looking at SQL conferences I had heard about this conference held in Denmark in the middle of nowhere with everyone staying in huts and was always interested as to how it worked, confining all the delegates in one place with no opportunity for escape. Later on when I became an MVP I started hearing stories about a conference in ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Jan 1 2013
  • Help to Improve SQL Batch Operations and ETL

    How many times have you copied data into a table and got one of the following less than helpful errors.   String or binary data would be truncated.   Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric.   Arithmetic overflow error for ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Mon, Dec 31 2012
  • Interested in going to the cloud then this might be useful

    Bob Duffy is doing an afternoon seminar on Azure. It will provide an introduction to the Azure platform, and in particular SQL Azure, show tools and methodologies to migrate on premise databases into the cloud, using a sample application and database and finally it will detail some of the Azure specific features that enable massive scale OLTP ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Dec 5 2012
  • 30 days and its ginger–help me get to £400

    Its taken 30 days and I have managed, to my surprise, to grow a ginger Mo in support of Movember. http://uk.movember.com/mospace/6154809 I didnt quite reach my supposed lookaliki but I dont think it was a bad effort. Next time Ill leave my hair for a few months before. If you fancy donating then you can do so here ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Nov 30 2012
  • Don’t forget

    If you are in Dublin then we have a meeting on tonight at the Microsoft office. The subject of the talk is Almost all queries have to do two things, get data and join it together. In this session we will look at the aspects of these that most people think they know but in reality dont. If you think you know SQL then you should come along ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Nov 22 2012
  • Presenting at Usergroup meeting in Dublin

    I'll be over in Dublin doing a usergroup meeting on Thursday evening at the Microsoft office. The subject of the talk is Almost all queries have to do two things, get data and join it together. In this session we will look at the aspects of these that most people think they know but in reality dont. If you think you know SQL then you ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Nov 20 2012
  • Fancy a laugh

    Im growing my first ever moustache for Movemb http://uk.movember.com/ You can see my mo space and pictures of the thing growing on my lip here http://uk.movember.com/mospace/6154809 If you would like to support me then please do make a donation and make this worth it. https://www.movember.com/uk/donate/payment/member_id/6154809/ Were not ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Nov 13 2012
  • We’re looking got SQL People

    We are growing our data team at Wonga. If you are working in the SQL Server space and would like to join the one the fastest growing tech companies in Europe then please get in touch (http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/contact.aspx) We have positions for production DBAs, Data QA analysts and SQL generalists (with a BI tendency). We also have ...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Mon, Nov 12 2012
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